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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

Earnings across the first decade (P25 / median / P75)

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (7,952 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$52,349
Cost-adjusted: $49,498
Median debt (completers)
$25,000
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.48
3-yr default rate
0.0%
Borrowers who entered repayment in the published cohort year, not current students

College Scorecard. Earnings are measured ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike — not ten years after graduation.

Ten-year median earnings of $52,349 are unremarkable — neither the reason to come nor the reason to stay away. That median masks a wide range, from $33,919 at the 25th percentile to $81,787 at the 75th — what you study matters more than where. Regional prices cut into it: cost-adjusted, the median is effectively $49,498. Students who finish carry a median of $25,000 in debt. The debt-to-income ratio is 0.48, around the commonly cited healthy ceiling — manageable, with little margin.

Earnings percentiles by field (Census PSEO)

One row per field and graduating cohort. Rows that share a field are different graduating classes, not repeats.

Field Graduating cohort Years after grad P25 Median P75
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $28,103 $40,729 $50,245
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $27,237 $39,163 $49,551
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $38,509 $56,877 $72,585
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $40,849 $59,848 $76,644
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 1 $28,103 $40,729 $50,245
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $27,237 $39,163 $49,551
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 5 $38,509 $56,877 $72,585
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 5 $40,849 $59,848 $76,644
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 2016 1 $31,416 $41,582 $50,471
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 2013 1 $27,784 $38,460 $47,306
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 2010 1 $29,070 $36,745 $45,382
Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services (10) 0000 1 $29,472 $38,771 $47,939

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients — earnings measured 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation, unlike the Scorecard figures above. The all-fields institution total is published separately and is not one of the rows above. A cohort label covers a pooling window of three or five graduating years, which PSEO does not publish per cell.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #661 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$105,000
20-year NPV
$515,000
40-year NPV
$1,127,000

Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)